LAHORE – The Punjab government has rejected the reports claiming that controversial cleric Mufti Qavi has been appointed as an ambassador for excise department’s vanity number plate scheme.
A day earlier, photos and videos surfaced on media showing a director of the Punjab Excise department handing over a vanity number plate to Mufti Qavi.
The media reports also quoted the director as saying that Qavi had been appointed as an ambassador for the scheme in order to promote it.
In latest development, Punjab Information Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari said no such appointment has been made by the provincial government.
She said a stern action will be taken if any official had done such thing. She said Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has taken strict notice of the reports.
Under the Excise department’s new initiative, the scheme will offer three distinct categories of vanity number plates:
Gold Plates: Priced at 500,000 PKR
Platinum Plates: Priced at 50,000 PKR
Corporate Plates: Priced at 1,000,000 PKR
These plates will be owned permanently by the purchaser.
To address concerns about counterfeit plates, the department has implemented a comprehensive strategy, which includes maintaining a detailed database of all vanity plate holders.
